Quotes About Obsession

Una cola que a veces da la vuelta a la esquina y que los neoyorquinos guardan con disciplina porque es un país obsesionado con las colas, no sólo con respetarlas sino por situarse, como en el colegio, unos detrás de los otros, sin tonterías.

So you take her to the pictures, trying to become a fixture. Inch by inch trying to reach her, all the way through the second feature. Worrying about your physical fitness, tell me how you got this sickness?

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...

Am avut mereu aceeasi obsesie, pe tema inutilit??ii si a mor?ii, celelalte probleme n-au nicio importan??.

Iti trebuie o pasiune mare pana la imbecilitate pentru a putea iubi o singura femeie.

When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.

Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past.

The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.

Natura s-a ar?tat darnic? numai cu cei pe care i-a scutit de obsesia mor?ii. Dac?-i firesc s? mori, nu-i deloc firesc s? zabove?ti asupra mor?ii.

Obsesia sinuciderii e datul celui ce nu poate nici s? tr?iasc?, nici s? moar?, ?i care nu uit? niciun moment aceast? dubl? imposibilitate.

Sunt un obsedat care se risipeÅŸte, care îÅŸi iroseÅŸte ÅŸi îÅŸi spulber? obsesiile.

La puntualidad es una variedad de la «locura del escrúpulo». Por llegar a la hora, yo sería capaz de cometer un crimen.

The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed are those who suffer from it, who are a prey to questioning, and who can accept no given because they were born in consternation.

For all we tell ourselves about not outliving a stillborn babe, instead of clearing out at the first opportunity, we cling, with lunatic energy, to one day more.

Of all the bonds which link us to things, there is not one which fails to slacken and dissolve under the influence of suffering, which frees us from everything except the obsession of ourselves and the sensation of being irrevocably individual. Suffering is solitude hypostatized as essence.

We cherish our anathemas, greedy for what pulverizes us; not for anything would we renounce our own nightmare to which we have assigned as many capital letters as we have known illusions. These illusions have been discredited, like the capital letters, but the nightmare remains, decapitated and naked, and we continue to love it precisely because it is ours and because we do not see what to replace it by.

I try to oppose the interest I take in her, I imagine her eyes, her cheeks, her nose, her lips in a high state of putrefaction. No help for it: the indefinable element she releases persists. It is in such moments that one understands why life has managed to sustain itself, in spite of Knowledge.

Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.